Irvin George Dunnegan: Appalachian Aristocracy

1849 - 1895 (45 years)

Generation: 1

Irvin George Dunnegan was born 30 Jun 1849, Warren Co. TN; died 17 Jun 1895, Wayne Co. MO.

Notes:

Notes from Carol E. Vaughan, great granddaughter, Lexington, KY

Irwin George, the sixth child of Thompson Dunnegan and Sophronia Tate, was born in Warren County, TN in 1849. Thompson's family had moved from VA to middle TN sometime between 1810 and 1817. After Irvin's grandfather, Absalom Dunnegan, died in White County, TN, his uncles, John and Samuel Dunnegan left that area and moved to southeast MO around 1843. After about ten years Irvin's father Thompson followed them to Iron County, MO and later to Wayne County, MO.

Irwin was a farmer and owned a sawmill in Des Arc which he sold to G. W. Graves in 1890 for one thousand dollars. He was involved in a number of land transfers in Wayne County. One of the deeds reflected an understanding between Irvin George and his father, Thompson, in which Irvin would have a parcel of land for a nominal cost and would provide elder care for Thompson. It was signed in 1880 by Thompson and his second wife, Sallie E. Foquaide.

Irvin died in 1895 of injuries resulting from a very serious accident in 1894 at a saw mill in Wayne County. Carol Vaughan remembers this version as told by her grandfather, Walter C. Dunnegan. "Granddaddy said that people would come to their house and cut off patches of their own skin to graft onto his father's are flesh in hopes that his wounds would heal. He was at home in bed a long time before he died." The following death notice in the Iron County Register paints an even more agonizing and painful death.

Iron County Register, June 20, 1895

From Des Arc

I. G. Dunnegan, who was scalded in a wreck on a log boom below Poplar Bluff last summer, was brought home last winter. All the flesh was burned off his legs from his hip down. He has suffered death a thousand times, and of late he suffered so much you could hear him hollow and take on for some distance. So the Doctors concluded to cut off one of his lets, and Sunday, Drs. Petit, Gay, Tates and Sebastian amputated his leg, but he only lived until night. Poor man! He is better off. May God help his bereaved widow and children! He will be buried at Des Arc Tuesday. June 17, 1895

Irvin married Sarah Anna Kimmel 1878, Wayne Co. MO. Sarah was born 1860, Missouri; died 1944, Arkansas. [Group Sheet]

Children:

2. Edward E. Dunnegan was born Jan 1878, Wayne Co. KY; died , Pine Bluff, Jefferson Co. AR; was buried , Graceland Cemetery, Pine Bluff, Jefferson Co. AR.
3. Ida Jane Dunnegan was born 28 Mar 1880, Wayne Co. KY; died 16 Jun 1945, Little Rock, Pulaski Co. AR; was buried , Walnut Grove Cemetery, Newport, Jackson Co. AR.
4. Charlie Dunnegan
5. Etta Dunnegan
6. Ted Dunnegan
7. Walter Cellman Dunnegan was born 10 May 1893, Warren Co. MO; died 04 Jun 1959, Marshall Co. KY; was buried , Calvert City Cemetery, Marshall Co. KY.
8. Irvin W. Dunnegan

Generation: 2

2. Edward E. Dunnegan (1.Irvin¹) was born Jan 1878, Wayne Co. KY; died , Pine Bluff, Jefferson Co. AR; was buried , Graceland Cemetery, Pine Bluff, Jefferson Co. AR.

3.	Ida Jane Dunnegan (1.Irvin¹) was born 28 Mar 1880, Wayne Co. KY; died 16 Jun 1945, Little Rock, Pulaski Co. AR; was buried , Walnut Grove Cemetery, Newport, Jackson Co. AR. Ida married Guy E. HAUSER. [Group Sheet] Ida married Frank L. BAIRD 31 Oct 1901, Wayne Co. MO. [Group Sheet]

4. Charlie Dunnegan (1.Irvin¹)
5. Etta Dunnegan (1.Irvin¹)
6. Ted Dunnegan (1.Irvin¹)

Walter Cellman Dunnegan

(1.Irvin¹) was born 10 May 1893, Warren Co. MO; died 04 Jun 1959, Marshall Co. KY; was buried , Calvert City Cemetery, Marshall Co. KY.

Walter married Genivieve Kathryn Soper 1920. Genivieve was born 12 Apr 1898, Clinton Co. NY; died 04 Oct 1942, Washington, DC; was buried , Fort Lincoln Cemetery, Brentwood, Prince Georges Co. MD. [Group Sheet]

8. Irvin W. Dunnegan (1.Irvin¹)
Notes:
Died at a young age.